INDEX. 



419 



Page. 



Deposites of Specimens of Natural History 44,45,4 



Depths of Atlantic ocean, Soundings of. 91 



Derby, H. W 36 



Desert, home of the Camel 101 



Desert, north of the Lower Colorado, lowest spot of the American Continent 281 



Desert of Gabi 118 



Desert, six days' journey in width, without any vegetation 107 



Deserts, few portions of without shrubs 10 



Deserts, nature of Soil of 104 



Detroit, Michigan 35, 87 



Detroit river 87 



Dew, law of formation of. 194 



Dew point at Greenwich 215 



Dew point, explanation of. 216 



Dew point, Russell's rule for ascertaining 221 



Diablo, Mount - 251 



Dia-magnetism, Explanation of 17 



Dia-magnetism, Ruhmkorff's apparatus 17 



Diary of an Excursion in New Mexico, by Major J. PI. Carleton 296 



Dickinson, Jno., Visit to Boston of. 169 



Dictionary of Chippewa Language 14 



Diifendorfer, Dr 85 



Difference between climate of Eastern and Western continents 117 



Diodon fuliginosus 351 



Diodon maculato-striatus (Spot-Striped Balloon- Fish) 351 



Discovery of the Asteroids 138, 139 



Dissenting Colonists of Rhode Island Refused Admission into Confederacy 176 



Distribution of Collections 41 



Distribution of Duplicate Specimens in Natural History made 25 



Division of Longitudinal Basin of American Continent by Depression of Soil 281 



Dix, W. G., Lectures by 28 



Dodgeville, Wisconsin , 88 



Dog-shark...' *337 



Dolphin, Brig 91,95 



Domestic Animals of Beaver Islands 282 



Doiia Ana 84,96,297 



Donations to Museum during 1854 42 



Donelson, Lieut 81,82 



Donne, found Iodine to counteract Strychnia 135 



Doty, Mr 81 



Douglas, Stephen A., Resolution of, respecting Correspondence 78 



Dromedary Corps in Algeria 109 



Dromedary Corps Practicable 116 



Dromedary, Description of 102 



Dromedary, Johnson's Story of 110 



Dromedary, not a Camel with two Humps 102 



Dromedary, Performance of a 122 



Dromedary Regiment of Napoleon 119 



Dromedary should be brought from Algeria 122 



